Welcome to my new blog, which stands somewhere between the hurly burly of my personal blog and the quiet backwater of my academic blog. Why this blog? I currently have a book in preparation, on this…

This is what I would do: Princeton's Integrated Science curriculum. This is how science should be taught: The course begins with an overview of the different disciplines in the natural sciences (…

do u think that the large hadron colloidor is safe and worth to spend a lot of currency on it

The International Year of Astronomy continues its celebration with a photo of triple galaxy group April 1 and 2. 140,000 people around the world voted on six potential targets; the Arp 274…

The True History of a Windbag Ideas in etymology are like ideas in general.  Just as there is the carefully researched and formulated scientific theory as against 'just an idea', so with…

On March 17th 2009 Europe's first geodetic satellite was successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. The first stages of putting the satellite in a stable recording orbit are…

Spinning a Yarn Ideas in etymology are like ideas in general.  Just as there is the carefully researched and formulated scientific theory as against 'just an idea', so with etymology. It is to…

Combine an elementary physics formula, f=m*a, with a hunk of wood or composite material and you get hockey's most powerful shot - the slapshot. Every year before the NHL All-Star game, players…

The Age of PlasticThe term 'plastic' means, generally,  'easily moulded or shaped'. Online dictionaries tend to show only a few of the very many variants and meanings of the term 'plastic'.I…

I came across a blog today, written by a female scientist (apparently - it's an anonymous blog and that's okay, if Obama's teleprompter can have a blog I suppose anyone sentient can also, but…

Please be warned. The only link to science is really the single word "ornithologist". Unless you are studying humour, that is. For The Birds, a very short story worth reading.

Well, OK, Excel is not going to replace Matlab or Mathematica or whatever other similar industrial-strength computing tool you use.  But this amazing site shows you how to do some powerful…

Part 1, which begins our examination of the question 'what is time?' can be viewed here.Part 2 Some travels through time can be viewed  here.Part 3 discussing language, sequence and order, can…

Cornell scientists have applied genetic programming to experimental data in order to elicit fundamental physical laws governing the data.  These physical laws include Lagrangians and laws…

I'm no expert on shaving products or Australians(1) but this new Wilkinson Sword Quattro for Women Bikini thingie, with a razor on one end and a waterproof bikini trimmer on the other, is not…

On March 30th, Josh Witten told us about a new site, The Jenny McCarthy Body Count.  He's apparently not a fan of Jenny, no matter what she looks like.   I am not sure I understand that…

Scientific Blogging can help your career! Well, indirectly. A study out of Melbourne University in Australia found that workers who surf the internet for fun at work, within a reasonable …

While the team here discusses our current veeery quiet solar minimum, what are working solar physicists thinking?  Well, from the SPA Newsletter (http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/spa/spanews.html), a…

I'm going to step above my (science) pay grade with an idea.  Perhaps it is already being worked on and I just have not heard of it - quite likely.  And perhaps it can't be done; although…

1998 was the warmest year on record, which George Will takes to mean that global warming is not happening: Reducing carbon emissions supposedly will reverse warming, which is allegedly occurring even…